Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
The problem is the same as in disease screening. If you have a 98% effective test for a disease that only 1 in a million people have then you get that one person, but also 2% * 1 million = 20,000 false positives.
Finding one suspect in 65million Britains, or 500million if they could be anywhere in Europe, is the ultimate 'rare case'
>He complains about encryption? He's giving them the bloody guns!
But they have to carry guns to protect themselves from a tyrannical government and protect themselves against unconstitutional warrant-less searches.
If there weren't unconstitutional warrant-less searches by a tyrannical government it would be stupid to have all those guns.
>why are NASA forging ahead with the untested Boeing programme,
NASA funding relies on senators and congress critters who believe the Earth is flat and G*D lives just above the clouds. But they also believe Boeing have a plant in their region
Your Huawei still has Google Android, just not Google store.
It also has the same layers of baseband and embedded processor code that this system is exploiting.
Given that the biggest customers for cellphone spys-R-us after the USA is China, you can bet Celebrite's engineers are frequent visitors to Huawei 's labs.
>I fail to see what the fuss is
Because it normalises this action.
The next version of the software will fit in a pocket.
The police will then slurp the contents of your phone at every traffic stop or SUS. Just to save a trip to the station = a purely administrative change for efficiency
It's hardly unreasonable that the police can stop anyone in the street and check that they haven't viewed the website of any terrorist links to a group like extinction rebellion or English Heritage.
Then get a list of all your friends, any financial data to pass along to the DWP or check for IR35
Then get a copy of any pictures of your girlfriend/boyfriend/Sheep to pass along to their palls at the lodge.
Just make sure you are following the SNP leader and giving it lots of likes in the run up to the next referendum citizen
Because it might not be possible.
Classifying it as a new type might mean every part has to meet 2020 rules and regulations.
It's really a problem with all the certifications, FCC and FDA aswell as FAA. The rules are so strict that the only way is to work around them. So the response to this is to make the rules more strict.
I have had it happen with old university buildings. We couldn't add a fire alarm because it would trigger a new fire plan, which would mean new fire exits, disabled access, improved insulation standards etc etc. Adding a small amount of safety to an old high fire building is impossible because of all the new safety rules.
The M16 was switched to the 'wrong' propellant because somebody insisted it had a better TopTrumps score than the opposition.
However they allowed manufacturer acceptance testing with the lower energy "proper" propellant because the one actually used used in the field (jungle) caused too many jams.
Eventually they agreed to upgrade the metalurgy for the "wrong" propellant
So we can now use smartphones to make direct voice "calls" indistinguishable from a rotary telephone - except for the initial 15minutes of "can you hear me?", "I can't hear you", "are you on mute?", "can everyone else mute, there is an echo" "I have to restart", "can you resend the invite", "I have updates", "you have to send me another invite I'm not in your group"
